Jeff Beck demonstrating "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix 

I think it was Eric Clapton who said..."Jeff Beck has notes on his guitar that I can't find on mine."

I don't think people realize that musicians like this come around every 100-200 years. It's truly a phenomenon.

Jeff Beck is the rare player who could turn a guitar into an actual living breathing organism. Always topnotch musicianship.

Jeff Beck's right hand is magic. The way he works volume, tone, and tremolo all at once. Genius....

I can play that last D chord just like him

Yeah

Only guitarists can really appreciate how impossibly hard it is to play like Jeff Beck - truly the maestro

Beck is highly underrated. Always living in Clapton and Page's shadows but he was never second to either of them. They knew it too.

Jeff beck the only man to carry a spare rhythm player

... and that's why he's Jeff Beck and we're not.

Rest in power Jeff. You changed the world forever and will never be forgotten.

Jeff Beck once said: " I saw Jimmy and I was like..fuck that! This guy has the whole package of what I try to do...I either need to learn to do something completely different on guitar or I quit..." And he learned...boy, did he learn...

The thing that makes Beck so special is he NEVER STOPS improving. EVERY SINGLE DAY he is better than the day before. A lot of beginners go through that but Beck is alone among the greats in that way. Most of them get so good they rest on their laurels but not Beck. If he lives a million more years he will never stop perfecting his abilities on the guitar.

Jeff Beck: "I can't, I need to, I dunno, I haven't..." Also Jeff Beck: Nails it and casually plays the most beautiful guitar solo ever.

Just nipping in here to pay respects to a genuine master of the craft. RIP Jeff

I've been listening to Jeff Beck for 53 years, and he's improved every year since. The man is truly a guitar god.

00:49 I've seen hundreds of guitar tricks in my lifetime but never have seen anyone turn the volume knob, tone knob and pick-up selector switch that fast! ⚡⚡⚡

That was insane.. This man has absurd control of expression

It felt like the guy sitting across from him was the only person in the room who appreciated that they were having a once in a lifetime experience up close and personal. No one plays their guitar with more emotion than Beck. Amazing.

I love how he couldn’t articulate with words what the Stratocaster can do, then just effortlessly plays the most beautiful soul moving tones I’ve ever heard anyone make on a guitar. I’m so thankful for this interview and the work of Jeff Beck.

The more you listen to jeff beck the more you appreciate how subtly genius he really is on guitar

To make an instrument come to life like that is quite awe inspiring.

He was otherworldly. Some can corroborate this, but I read he showed up in NYC for a session, stopping in a guitar shop along the way and bought a Strat without even trying it out. When he got to the session, he crushed it without even tuning the guitar, by bending strings and adjusting his playing. I hope it's true. He was my ultimate guitarist ever.

two prominent geniuses from England, Jeff Beck and Isaac Newton

That chap playing guitar, he needs to be in a band before he gets too old.

It's like Owen Gibbs said in the funniest episode yet of Circle of Tone, "Jeff Beck, the guitarist's guitarist." I think the best word to describe Jeff Beck's guitar playing is 'mastery'. He owns the instrument like an appendage.

I love the way he catches the eye of the bass(oops, rhythm!) player, giving him the ok to join in. Jeff makes this come to life like no other since Jimi....

Man! It hurt when we lost Bowie and Prince, but as a guitar player, this one really, really hurts. :'(

He is the absolute real deal. When you have guys like Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Gary Moore say he the best they mean it

I know I'm going to ruffle some feathers here, but man, I think he has the most skill out of all the players in his time.

Jeff Beck was much more than a guitarist. He somehow managed to become one with his guitar, transcending technique and theory, and presenting the listener with an unending river of musical emotion, melody and tone.

BECK: one of the few Masters who can make his strings sing in many genre languages.

I'll bet this guy could get a gig if he wanted to.

That's a strat masterclass right there. You can tell the guy stuck to one axe and and actually crafts his style around what the guitar could do.

Only guy who could sound like the past, present and future in one phrase.

The difference between him and other players is he addresses every nuance of playing the guitar ... he has really good ears.

This shit just does something to my soul man like those tones are just heavy they physically carry a weight of emotion

I absolutely love the look he gives at the end, as if he's tacitly asking, "Did I pass the audition, sir?"

I feel so so sad that we will never hear his playing again. There is no- one to replace him and we are seeing the last of his kind! Thank you so much for your unique playing Jeff it was a privilege to witness it. RIP

Never been a Jeff Beck fan. Don't own one recording. I am however, a huge Hendrix fanatic. This is truly so damn beautiful... well I just burst into tears. Some of the most beautiful notes I have heard were played here in this tiny clip. Wow. Don't trip over the magic! Thanks for this ChromeD.

Man, he can go from beautiful to raunchy goodness in 1 second. Awesome

It’s not that others can play your style, it’s that you played it first.

Rest in peace, Jeff. You will be missed. Such an original guitar player. Gives me chills within seconds.

👍 Jeff Beck playing Jimi Hendrix- it doesn’t get much better than that.

Jeff Beck is probably one of the most underrated guitarists ever. He and Joe Walsh. Beck pretty much invented a lot of distortion techniques used today, while with the Yardbirds......

Even now to this day Jeff Beck is still inventing, experimenting, working on new stuff. Ronnie Wood says “Jeff will still come up to me and say “Can you do this?”(demonstrates a complicated riff) and Ronnie says “NO!” like c’mon man.

The innovative genius of Jeff Beck, amazing to behold.

I love that it’s clearly Jimi’s Little Wing, it’s clearly in Jimi’s style… but it’s completely different than any other version of Little Wing I’ve ever heard. He’s improvising and can just flow in Hendrix style. If you don’t play guitar I don’t know how to explain to you how insane that is

Jeff is just an insane guitar player.

I love watching JB play his guitar. He's so old school and his technique is utterly original. When I watch "new school" guitarists play they all have the same polished technique and can play circles around the old guys but there are SO FEW that really get it. Having the chops is great but once you have the facility you have to figure out how to "forget it" in a sense and let your heart and mind open up to the true music inside you. Beck can't play a million miles an hour and there is nothing "correct" about his technique but his soul is massive and his power of creation a thing of beauty and awe. That's the goal.

Lots of people can play Hendrix tracks but only Jeff Beck can emulate them perfectly 😂 awesomeness

I return to this video so often. Really blind sided by his death, rip to one of my absolute favorite players

The title should be “Demonstrating the Stratocaster,” as he appears to be showing the ranges of tone with a Strat and Little Wing was just the rift he went into.

It's amazing the way he plays it "loose," just like Jimi. Just nails it.

At 0:40 Jeff just looks somewhere and... there you go: a rhythm guitarist pops out of nowhere! More powerful than Chuck Norris, trust me!

He’s one of the few people on the planet who actually plays the entire electric guitar. The bar, the knobs, the whole damn thing. It truly is an extension of his being. He continues to push it beyond the boundaries. I catch him live whenever the opportunity arises. In my opinion, he’s still the greatest electric guitarist to ever live.😎

beck - will be the last of the greats standing.

For my money Beck has taken the stratocaster to places before unknown. A true genious.

Jimi Hendrix came from another realm there is no doubt in my mind

Rest in Stratosphere Paradise Jeff Beck 🙏🏾🌌🎸🎶🪶🦅🎶🎸🙏🏾

A lot of his sound is from his hands . I first saw him in about 1968 at the Singer Bowl in NYC with Rod Stewart . I have been a fan for 50 + years . He only gets better . And to see him do it live is the reason there is nothing like it . No tapes or Auto Tune . Pure musicianship .

watching/listening to Jeff makes me want to cry with joy and inadequacy

And that RIGHT THERE is why the Stratocaster is the greatest guitar ever made! Rest in Peace, Jeff 🙏🎸

Rip Jeff, maybe the one guitarist I can think of that cannot be duplicated ❤️

It is so fucking cool the way Jeff Beck is always himself, yet manages to capture the spirit of whoever he's paying tribute to. I had the opportunity to see Buddy Guy do the same thing. He went through a medley and managed to keep the audience thoroughly entertained by comparing and contrasting the way Clapton, Hendrix, Beck, Albert King, BB King and a handful of other American and British Blues guitar Legends would approach a simple blue idea. Buddy Guy managed to capture their essence without playing a second-rate version of each players well-known songs. Instead, he managed. to take the listener on a musical Journey that completely nailed how each of the players might have approached the progression On Any Given night oh, but he did so by extracting the vibe and feel those players are known for. While doing so, if you are a Discerning musician watching you would notice that he still sounded like himself and it was undeniable but he had such a command of instrument that he was able to do Impressions the way a good stand up comedian can do impressions of other famous people good stand-up comedians will do a seemingly perfect impression of another famous person by spending about 5 to 20 seconds imitating them but combining the key elements such as timing, delivery, inflection, phrasing kind of body language so they get it to the point where you instantly know who'd imitating but it's a kept on going sooner or later you realize that it wasn't perfect and that is because they do not own that individuals vocal cords body brain or life experience Players who try to mimic playing styles of their influences exactly will always fall short because they can only be themselves. You can't beat a man at his own game so it is much more productive 2 try and extract the essence from your influences while retaining your stylistic identity. Because the guitar is it tactile instrument with the exact tone being totally and completely Reliant on the physical, mental and emotional attributes that are completely unique to the individual, it would be impossible to ever do a totally precise rendition of another player who's style is instantly recognizable. In other words, a player who uses very little vibrato and bending and simply plays notes in A Sterile fashion but might have some interesting melodies or song structures is the kind of player that people can imitate without bastardizing. On the other hand jicama players like Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Sean McLoughlin, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Larry Carlton Michael Landau oh, Allan Holdsworth, Angus Young And there are literally hundreds of other great players who styles are completely unique and instantly recognizable oh, that you would be much better served to really try and understand the essence in the approach to phrasing, vibrato, Dynamics and general vibe then you would be trying to learn their catalog of material, trying to get their exact tone by purchasing the gear they used and spending far too much time getting everything right because there is one thing that it is impossible to ever get it right and that is to be them which not only means that you physically will not be able to do what they do not because you are weaker or stronger shorter or taller more or less coordinated but because you are simply different additionally and equally as important you do not live in their head meaning that your brain and nervous system as well as the influence that their unique experiences have had on that unique brain nervous system and body can never be replicated. Therefore weather Some people prefer you're playing even if relates to songs that your hero has wrote, is a fruitless Endeavor to try and nail Your Heroes guitar sound to any precise degree because a, it is not possible and be, it's the tracks from the development of your own unique identity. to take away is that influences are critical, learning lots of other people's songs in many cases note-for-note is important for musical elements but those are just tools in the toolbox for you to synthesize in developing your own style. Once you have played long enough and have developed your own musical ] when paying r tribute6 but always be respectful and use your own identity and masteryof your instrument to pull your hero's Spirit out of the guitar. Everyone will know that is you playing whether they can see you or not.Thè goal should be to catfish the audience with your ability to be yourself yet be such an excellent musician and you can instantly Champion the shoes of one of your Heroes temporarily and the audience will know exactly who it is you are paying homage to in your own super cool way. Watching Jeff Beck pay tribute to Hendrix was way more impressive than watching a lesson on RU-vid of an accomplished player who can play little wing and make it sound more similar to the album yet completely missed the mark when it comes 2 getting all the juice out of the instrument. In other words, it sounds like Hendrix playing Little Wing on a really bad day what his mind was totally preoccupied and he was simply going through the motions such that the feel and essence of what makes him great was utterly missing anyone can do that

Just Brilliant.....Jeff Beck makes everything look SO easy on a Guitar..........

I literally came here about 3 days ago and have been on a Beck binge for atleast a solid week and the news of his passing just hits real bad right now .. Rest In Peace Jeff Beck your Rock n Roll legacy will forever endure.

He always finds his own way to phrase, structure, & express on others' songs. A perfect combination of creating something new within an idea while also paying homage to the original idea.

I had the honour to shake his hand and take a picture with him back in 2010 after his concert in Toronto. It was absolutely surreal watching him walk into the VIP room we were in, and everyone went quiet for a few seconds. What a legend!

I'm 66 and remember him from the Yardbirds. I don't know if there is/was something in the water, but the U.K. has produced some of the finest guitarists in the world.

Upon seeing Jimi Hendrix play, Jeff Beck said "what am I gonna do now, work in the Post Office?" Nice compliment indeed.

I’m not ashamed to say,”I wept the day “Jeff Beck” passed 💫🎸🎼⭐️

This is such a beautiful thing, you can tell how much Jimi meant to Jeff. You hear it all the time in interviews and stuff, but nothing speaks louder than the music.

When I began to play in the early 80s and bought every guitar mag out there, Jeff Beck was literally in every issue. Phenomenal player who is a thumb picker.

Not every universe gets a “Jeff Beck”…we are lucky to live in one that does.

One of the GOATs, no matter what axe falls on his hands!

Jeff Beck is probably one of the most phrasing guitarists ever.

Jeff Beck is something out of reality. He is incredible

Jezus Christ, I got tears in my eyes...instantly when he played....man...so beautiful

R.I.P. Master Jeff.. Your departure to other skies makes me so sad.

He is in a League all his own and always has been. There is Jeff Beck and everyone else.

it always amazes me the way really good guitarists play with their fingers

Jeff beck was naturally gifted player... Some training day in day out and became crazy good... And then we have next level there jeff beck and some more are in....its just to enjoy and feel blessed to have hear them play 🙏🧙‍♂️

So sad to hear of Jeff Beck’s passing. RIP Jeff you will be deeply missed by so many.

I saw Jeff Beck play this song in my life and it transcended any live music experience I have ever had... it was like the song unlocked a 6th sense or another dimension... I was completely sober but it felt like a trip. Jeff Beck is in a class of his own.

I’m surprised he didn’t go left handed just for more tonal authenticity or something. Amazing player.

like how he looked back then the rhythm guitarist behind got the clue immediately，every guitarist recognizes that little sweet chord progression

Hendrix would be proud…RIP 🪦

I like how he still seems so amazed after all these years that's the different sounds are are coming from the same guitar

The guy on the rhythm guitar is the real MVP for picking up on the solo and accompanying it. It made this demonstration into a performance. :o

Rest in Peace, Jeff. You were truly one of the immortals. Enjoy jamming with Jimmy, SRV and all the others like you.

He plays without a guitar pick and it gives his playing a very organic sound and feel.

Two of the greatest guitar players ever, Hendrix and Beck.

I just wet myself..... Jeff Beck is by far the best. Great tone. He masters all kinds of music.

This my friends is what complete mastery of an instrument looks and sounds like. Inhuman.

Little wing has been done by more musicians than any other song. What gratitude to such a Maestro!

Jeff Beck is a world treasure. I hope he lives and plays for many more years.

He started off with Julie London's cry me a river in case anyone wondered what that great beginning riff was

Most beautiful human, he... Beyond cosmic talent, skill and power, with the most dignified humility... at 71 I've wept for only 3 musicians' passings: Harry, Art Blakey and this cat ❤️🤙🌺

I always come back to this video from time to time. It's sad to hear he passed away.. May he rest in peace!!!